Five companies honored at Semiconductor Venture Fair IV
Austin, TX, March 9. 2005 - Alereon, a leading fabless semiconductor company developing wireless solutions for the Ultrawideband (UWB) and Wireless USB (W-USB) markets, announced today that it was recognized as a Most Promising Company at the just completed Semiconductor Venture Fair IV conference in San Francisco.
Alereon, the only UWB chip provider currently demonstrating the full 480MB per second solution, was chosen by an audience of influential semiconductor investment professionals, emerging company professionals, members of the media and semiconductor industry. The winners were selected from over 70 companies whose CEOs presented at the conference.
"We are please to be selected as one of the Five Most Promising Companies," said Eric Broockman, chief executive officer of Alereon. "Semiconductor Venture Fair is always attended by the most influential members of the semiconductor industry, and recognition from this audience is a grand accomplishment which I attribute to our team's hard work and proven technology leadership."
The Semiconductor Venture Fair is one conference in a series of industry-specific venture fairs for emerging technology markets supported by Infocast. For more information, visit: http://www.semiconductorventurefair.com/semivf05_home.html
About Alereon, Inc.
Alereon, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company providing complete solutions for wireless USB/ MultiBand OFDM ultrawideband (UWB) applications. A technology pioneer, Alereon holds the greatest number of UWB patents, was first to demonstrate an entirely in-house designed UWB platform, co-founded the MultiBand OFDM Alliance (MBOA) and WiMedia Alliance, and is participating in the development of a wireless USB standard. Alereon's products promise to replace the complex tangle of wiring used to interconnect today's consumer electronics, computer peripheral, and mobile devices with high-bandwidth, low-power, low-cost wireless links. Further information is available on the company's website: www.alereon.com.
